EF2 tornado in Scott County, Tennessee

Tornado April 8, 2021 · Scott County, Tennessee

EF2

Rating

3.2 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Scott County → Scott County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado tracked between Howard Day Road and Norma Road where many large hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted, along with minor roof damage to one home. The tornado was at its strongest just north of Howard Day Road, where large hardwood trees were snapped in a wooded area.

The wider storm

A series of supercell thunderstorms moved across the Cumberland Plateau during the late afternoon hours of April 8. Large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes were reported as the storms tracked toward the northeast. One of the supercells produced three tornado tracks as it moved through Scott County, with the strongest surveyed as an EF-2.

Began near Norma (36.3392, -84.3970).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Scott County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 949299. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.